Inside Climate News
U.S. center-left (climate-focused advocacy-adjacent news)
Background
David Sassoon and Stacy Feldman founded Inside Climate News in 2007. It began as a two-person experiment backed by a roughly $150,000 pilot grant. It grew into what it describes as the oldest and largest dedicated climate newsroom in the U.S. In 2013 reporters Elizabeth McGowan, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their series on the 2010 Kalamazoo River tar-sands oil spill. It later became known for its investigation of what Exxon's own scientists knew about climate change decades ago, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer. It operates as a nonprofit supported by philanthropy and has expanded through partnerships with outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and regional collaborations. Vernon Loeb, a former Washington Post editor, is its executive editor. The newsroom does investigative and explanatory reporting grounded in mainstream climate science and treats human-caused warming as established fact. Critics, mostly on the right, say that focus and its donor base give it an advocacy tilt. Supporters point to its award-winning, fact-based reporting. In 2025 and 2026 its coverage has focused on the Trump administration's rollback of climate and environmental rules, and that coverage is largely critical.
Sources
- Inside Climate News – Wikipedia
- About Us – Inside Climate News
- Our Newsroom Comes of Age – Inside Climate News
- This Climate News Site is a Winner in the Surge of Funding for Green Journalism – Inside Philanthropy
- Inside Climate News – InfluenceWatch
- Our Staff – Inside Climate News
Profile compiled 2026-10-09; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.